A rendering by architect Laura Morrison of the front of the Hayden Padgett Memorial Press Box his family hopes to see built at Mountain Home High School.

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Laura Morrison had no idea when she graduated from Mountain Home High School more than two decades ago that a chance conversation with a former classmate would lead her to take on an incredibly personal and challenging professional job at her alma mater.

After her graduation from Mountain Home, Morrison obtained a degree in architecture from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Then, after working in California and Colorado, she moved back to Arkansas. She and her husband Charles set up an architectural firm in Holiday Island.